OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL CHURCH 2700 DOVER AVENUE - FAIRFIELD, CA 94533

FR. DAVID FONTAINE, O. CARM. (PASTOR) FR. PEDRO (PETE) MANILAG, O. CARM. (PAROCHIAL VICAR) DEACON RAYMOND ELIAS

WWW.OURLADYOFMTCARMELFAIRFIELDCA.ORG

PARISH OFFICE..................................................(707) 422-7767 Gemma Gonzalo, Parish Administrator Office email address: olmc.gem@gmail.com Office hours: 8 AM - 4 PM, Monday - Friday FAITH FORMATION............................................(707) 422-2814 ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY........................(707) 422-5209 Emergency material assistance EMERGENCY SICK CALLS.................................(707) 422-7767 CONFIRMATION & RCIA............................(707) 422-7767 TAG / HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH MINISTRY Rhyan Ramirez…………………………..(707) 853-2905

MASS: WEEKEND….Saturday Evening: 5PM Vigil Sunday: 8AM, 10AM & 12 Noon DAILY…….Monday - Saturday: 9AM HOLY DAYS…………9AM, Noon and 7PM

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturdays………...3:30 to 4:30 PM or by appointment BAPTISMS: 3rd Weekend of the Month Pre-Baptism Program Required (visit our website) MARRIAGES: Six months notice required Contact the Parish Office for all Baptisms & Marriages

Mass Schedule / Sacraments Served by the Carmelites

Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration

• Sunday 1-2 AM • Wed. 4-5 AM and • Wed. Noon - 1PM • Friday Midn. - 1 AM

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 19 , 2017 ~ THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Earlier this autumn, we looked at how our Eucharistic Prayers have been enriched by the approval of several new prayers to augment the old Roman Canon. For us, there are the four standard prayers, three for Masses with Children, and the most recent addition, the former Swiss Eucharistic Prayer with four alternative forms (now known as the Eu-charistic Prayer for Masses for Various Needs and Occa-sions). We also have two Eucharistic Prayers for Masses of Reconciliation. The source for these two prayers is the re-quest by many bishops for a special prayer for the “Holy Year” of 1975. Originally, the committee in charge was commissioned to write a single prayer, but the theme proved so rich that it gave rise to two. The first is based on and develops biblical texts on reconciliation. The second starts with the experience of living in today’s fractured world, and how the Spirit calls us to reconciliation and peace. Not eve-ryone was happy with all this creativity, saying that if too many were published, it would be difficult for the Vatican to control further requests. Everyone thought the pope would put strict limits on the prayers, but in the end he said he was willing to open doors that had long been closed. Although he approved them for a period of only three years, they were never formally removed from the Sacramentary and have been incorporated into the new Roman Missal.

Monday 11/20

If you would like the faith community of OLMC to join you in prayers for special needs, contact the Parish Office at 422-7767. We do occasionally take some names off of the list in the bulletin. If we have taken a name from the printed list of a person still in need

of prayers, please give us a call and we will happily put him or her back on. Please take some time this week to remember the following in your prayers: - For all in our parish family who are suffering serious or terminal illness - For Men and Women in Armed Forces and for

Madison O’Shields Timothy White Ron Scharfen Dolores Highsmith-Cass Dion Newman Shannon Valtierra Daniella Rogers Harre Kim Bettencourt Susan Stockwell Francisco Galvez Joe & Evelyn Nunes Andy Andalajao Dolores Krystek Cassandra Lopez Yolanda Galvan Darwin Rasmussen Eugene P. Curtis Andrew Michael Capriato John & Vivian Donahoe Marie Louise Caro Susan Cox Tom McCoy Carrol Thierry Daniel Yaroch Bruce Waelbrock Jeff Anub Terri Bridges Peter D & Laura Labrado Dick Kraft Mary Highsmith Mark Carkin Matt Villaver Francisco Piedra T. Bautista & Family Paul Vogel

Carol Nunes Dolores Sheppard Bessie Zanolini Elba Elias Ian Padilla Cameron Schuster Miley McCrary De Pham John & June Kelley David Quilao Sal DiMarco Anita Flueck Dottie Lescano Bobby Holsworth John Joe White Virgil Jaramillo Therese & Bob Keck Pat Murtha Bonnie A. Marotta Lina Cradduck Jason Eshabarr Haley Family Akina Family Zenaida Sarin Darrell Sturgeon Steve Meyers Malou Garado Shannon Salvador Jerrylean Baker Anasa Bliss Leonida Bascara Mike Bordau Vivian Blas Zabala Family Ken Sanders

John Hess & Sharon Dotson Kimo Boone Gloria Lee Anita Brennan Steve Henson Stephen Shanahan Kathy Spain Larry Hebert Josephine Iannarelli Su Kuropatin Romy & Cuca Lopez Dennis Harp Debra Loredo Crystal Buelna Jim Lockwood Bernice Jojola Bing Lovena Lagdamen Leo & Gwen Martinez Lou Gimarelli Valerie Rhodes Mary Ellen McCormick Compton & Elsie Harris Fr.Hank Ormond, OCarm Jewel Perez Arias Family Evelyn Pacheco Cynthia Fernandez Ethel May Applewhite Julita Panganiban Pearla Cuerdo Jean Banks Michael Garibay Joseph Woods Carole Kraiss Bob & Carol Howisey Don Haug Fred & Barbara Valles Georgina McClinton

Committed Adorers are needed!

OLMC’s St. Therese Chapel is open 24 hours, 7-days a week! Our goal is to have 2 or more committed adorers every hour. Please

call the Parish Office for more information, (707) 422-7767.

About God ~ If I’m wrong about God, then I wasted my life. If you’re

wrong about God, then you wasted your eternity.

Date Activities - Dome / Church Mass / Intentions

Tuesday 11/21

Wednes. 11/22

Thurs 11/23

Friday 11/24

Saturday 11/25

Sunday 11/26

SVDP / CFC-HOLD / Phobease / K of C 9 AM: Jose & Bonnie Gomez

9 AM: Legion of Mary † Bev Orlando / † Ricardo Tubig

9 AM: † Ernesto Co / Anita Flueck / † Mercedes Smith

CFC—FFL Handmaid (1pm)

9 AM:

9 AM:

9 AM: 5 PM:

Shine (1:30pm) N2Y (2:30pm)

OLMC Parishioners

OLMC Parishioners

Sentmat Family / † Daniel Perazzo Marietta Castillo and Annie Castillo

8 AM: 10 AM: 12 PM:

† Christopher Crisologo † Jose Léon † Corazon Mercado

Parish Collections

Our weekly goal $12,500.00

Envelopes for Nov. 12th: $ 9,654.00

Online Donations Nov. 5th - Nov. 11th:

$ 1,093.55

Rainer Urbach 246-4686 Pearla Cuerdo 386-3403 Phyllis Kaminska 419-4237 Matt Maffei 592-0375

(Immaculate Heart Radio Ambassador)

Evelyn Samson 372-7215 Rita Santos 386-0423 Mike Lonero 389-0130 John Shinstock 437-4773 John Quitugua 428-7255 Laura Rojas (415) 613-3671 Vince Tydingco/Sec. 631-5269 Julie Darling / Pres. 425-3934

Annual Nativity Display: The Com-

mittee is in the plan-ning stages for the

2017 Nativity Display! We can use additional

help, Dec. 18th through Dec. 27th. If you’re interested in

helping with this worthwhile project, please call Dom Or-lando, 429-0149 or

Kelly Newman, 422-4582.

As we welcome the month of November, the month we remember all faithful departed, let us intercede for

them by praying for them . . . “grant them eternal rest, Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them:”

Charles Elser * Robert Gray Jr. * Freddy Highsmith Brett Lacosse * Servilla Maquinana * Luz Co * Jeremy Llavore Robert Murtha * Rafael Cervantes * Rachelle Cervantes Baker

Helen Crosby * Deacon Lawrence Shelden * Carmen Omoso * Preston Broussard Leroy Roles * Victoria Bracamonte * Sanjuana Lopez * Elizabeth Cepeda * Belin Tubig

Maria Kraszewski * Barbara McGee * George Hause * Eddie San Pedro Jr. Helen Rose Haug * JJ Gonzalo * Francisco Q. Cruz * John Petaishiki * Gloria Geluz

Betty Jo Gassen * Edward Buelna * Leticia Pagsalingan * Barbara DiMarco Felino & Maria Malaban * Henry Cabato * Adelaida Bersola * Timothy Howisey

Ricardo & Angelina Linehan * David Vicente * Richard Garant * Barbara Middleton Margaret Gebing * Carl Henry Jojola * Beverly Orlando * Jose Bayquen * Ralph Penning

Do you enjoy singing and / or playing an instrument? Are you looking for an opportunity to share your time and

talent with your Parish? Consider joining our Parish Music Ministry! Opportunities include:

Grades 2-6 Children’s Choir (N2Y); Grades 7-12 Teen Choir (S.H.In.E); Adult Choir (10AM Mass); Instruments (Bass, Gui-tar, Keyboard, Flute, Trumpet, etc.); Cantors (by audition only and must be competent in music reading); Some of our other

groups / ministries have their own choirs as well (i.e. Couples for Christ). We are also excited to be starting a Gospel Choir soon as well!

Please contact Mark at olmcmusic@guitarandpiano.com, (707) 688-4157 (text), or after one of the Sunday Mass if you are interested in participating in any way.

“Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” ~ Leo Buscaglia

OLMC’s Knights of Columbus

is sponsoring a TOY DRIVE. Your generosity in the past has been wonderful and we hope to have another fantastic year. You can bring NEW, unwrapped toys to the back of the Narthex beginning Nov. 5th and following weekends through Dec. 16th/17th. Dona-

tions will be given to children in need.

REMINDER: . . . Donation

envelopes are avail-

able in the Parish

Office and Church Narthex

(throughout November)

SHARING OUR GIFTS Autumn is the season for harvesting and sharing the fruits of our labors. This week’s scriptures use images of the harvest, family life, preg-nancy, and investment to describe the abundant harvest in the reign of God. We discover that sharing the gifts we have been given brings eternal rewards for everyone. In the Gospel par-able a master entrusts his possessions to three servants before going on a journey. Each is given some talents. What they do with those talents determines what the master will do with them when he returns. How about us? What are we doing with our talents? How will our Master treat us when he returns?

Family and Friends Gift Card Sales

December 5th, 6th, 12th and 13th (Tuesday and Wednes-day). Call Peggy 707-429-3183 or Regina Williams 707-330-6915 for more informa-tion.

OLMC MINISTRIES & ORGANIZATIONS

OLMC Parish Calendar

Nov. 18th/19th - Craft Faire, Dome Dec. 11th - OLMC Communal Penance (Dec. 14th for Holy Spirit) Dec. 22nd - 27th - Nativity Display Dec. 31st - New Year’s Eve Dinner Dance Feb. 3rd 2018 - Crab Feed Feb. 10th - Confirmation Retreat

Walk for Life West Coast 2018: Join fellow Catholics and Pro-Lifers from all over California and beyond as we stand up for the lit-tlest among us at the 14th Annual Walk for Life

West Coast in San Francisco, January 27, 2018. The pre-walk rally begins at 12:30 pm in

San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza, and the Walk down Market Street begins at 1:30 pm. For com-plete information about the Walk visit www.walkforlifewc.com. To reserve your bus seat chartered by Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Re-

spect Life Ministry, call Anna, 290-5583 or Cathy,688-6551.

ADULT EDUCATION - RCIA Vivian Donahoe 422-0872 / Kelly Newman 422-4582 / Dom Orlando 429-0149

MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER Tom and Elaine Bruno - 426-9564

ALPHA PREGNANCY CLINICS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 428-3300 MEMBERS IN MOTION Betty McFadden - 422-4129

ALTAR & SANCTUARY Lay Carmelites MINISTRY OF THE EUCHARIST Julie Darling - 425-3934 Pearla Cuerdo - 429-8226

ALTAR SERVERS Deacon Raymond Elias / 416-4618 MINISTRY OF THE WORD Greig Parker - 688-1795

AMOR DEI CHARISMATIC COMMUNITY

Delia & Ireneo Tabasa / 631-9577 MUSIC MINISTRY DIRECTOR Mark Middleton 688-4157 olmcmusic@guitarandpiano.com

BAPTISM (Baptismal Prep Class

held every other month)

Deacon Raymond Elias / 416-4618 deaconraymondelias@sbcglobal.net

MUSIC - Sunday / 10AM Choir Barbara McFadden 580-6514

CANCER SUPPORT Annie Hutchinson - 422-0851 OLMC GIFT CARDS Peggy Sherrod / 429-3183

CFC-FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY & LIFE

John & Malou Bayquen - 208-4005 Parish Pastoral COUNCIL

PERPETUAL Eucharistic Adoration

Consists of 10 members (See Bulletin) Lynda Sutton - 330-4858

COUNSELING (private practice) Henry A. Ormond, O.Carm, PhD 422-7767 ext 305

PRAYER LINE Catharine Scharfen - 427-2320 / Pearla Cuerdo -429-8226

COUPLES FOR CHRIST Cesar & Norma Dulay (707) 816-9576

Rey & Milva Lapitan - 707-428-1561 Ray & Lyn Fortaleza 707-208-6679

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Elaine Bruno or Anna Albericci 422-2814

CURSILLO Gem Geluz - 386-9142 RESPECT LIFE Cathy Omoso 688-6551

FIAT Norma Dulay - (707) 816-9576 RETROUVAILLE (Lifeline for trou-bled marriages)

Fred & Barbara Valles - 422-1215

FINANCE COUNCIL HELPING HANDS MINISTRY

Doug Darling - 425-3934 Annie Hutchinson - 422-0851

ST. VINCENT de PAUL 422-5209

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Dominic Orlando - 429-0149 USHERS / HOSPITALITY Bunny Dominguez / 386-2709

LAY CARMELITES Melody McCloskey 415-377-1139 VISITS TO THE SICK and SACRA-MENT MINISTRY

Parish Office

LEGION OF MARY Orlie Mangune, 707-880-5602 YLI (A Catholic Women's Organiza-tion)

Kathy Marley - 422-3588 or Margaret Sanders - 428-1970

LORD'S LEAVEN MISSION SOCIETY

Marlon & Yvette Taasan - 688-4880 YOUTH MINISTRY Rhyan & Danielle Ramirez - 853-2905 Regina Berdak - 398-1092

EURHARISTIC APOSTLES OF DIVINE MERCY (EADM)

Mindy Zindel 421-0776, Marlon Taasan 688-4880

CATHOLIC MEDIA KIOSK Phyllis Kaminska 419-4237